and the ripple effect is dramatic. when a mother dies, her children are more likely to be poor, more likely to die before the age of five, or to drop out of school if they survive. but private aid groups and governments are working hard to change the odds in the lottery of motherhood. in sierra leone, a place that "save the children" ranks as one of the very worst places to be a mom, a new government program is trying to turn the tide, as we see in this short film from "viewchange." woman: after a brutal decade-long conflict, sierra leone has the highest child and maternal mortality rates in the world. [music plays] [dr. tagie gbawru-mansaray] i'm a medical doctor housed here at the princess christian maternity hospital. narrator: one in five children die before their first birthday and one in eight women die during pregnancy. narrator: the one referral hospital in the capital of freetown services a population of over 400,000 people. ibraham thorlie: good afternoon. narrator: though the hospital is severely understaffed, it is not the only reason so m

children and throw chairs at them and the teacher. not only would these children be unable to learn that they would fight with classmates to the point that they could not learn either. that class had won the best teachers in any charter district school but on many days her extraordinary skills weren't enough to overcome those challenges. she did not need excuses, she needed help. i also spent time at spark academy. spark had some students although not as many who are equally troubled. nasa had way more resources to support them in their teachers. there are two teachers in classrooms from kindergarten through grade three. they had a tutor for every grade to support children who couldn't keep up even with two teachers. they have three social workers needed therapy with a total of 70 children a week while avon had the equivalent of one social worker. avon had one teacher per classroom and if they had a tutor they had one for the whole school. spark had the dean of students as java was to make sure there were sure there was an adult in eve

the officers brought their children. it is vore important in this day and age where there is negativity about the police officers it would good for the small children to see people being happy with the police department. thank you fwr the officers that participated thank you very much. i was very proud to be a part of that organization >> i just have to report excited news about the community safety initiative. [inaudible] that a sit a counsel had there. they are having similar violent issues with violence in the community and they were looking to interesting solutions that involved young people. apparently our kids knocked it out of the park and what the take aways have been is it is about communication and these kids talked about how much more they saw and understood what the police do and why they do it and we continue to be on to something in the way the chief has been for years of bringing young people in and doctor joe is the person that knows the most about this. when you had them in the radio show you said they sh

the officers brought their children. it is vore important in this day and age where there is negativity about the police officers it would good for the small children to see people being happy with the police department. thank you fwr the officers that participated thank you very much. i was very proud to be a part of that organization >> i just have to report excited news about the community safety initiative. [inaudible] that a sit a counsel had there. they are having similar violent issues with violence in the community and they were looking to interesting solutions that involved young people. apparently our kids knocked it out of the park and what the take aways have been is it is about communication and these kids talked about how much more they saw and understood what the police do and why they do it and we continue to be on to something in the way the chief has been for years of bringing young people in and doctor joe is the person that knows the most about this. when you had them in the radio show you said they sh

the war. they say, if it continues many children will die. >> the situation is terrible. now after six months of conflict, we have half a million children who is severely and acutely malnourished. at the same time last year, we had less than 160,000 children. so it's got three times worse. >> this hospital was targeted many times. doctors here fear they may have to real kate to a temporary clinic at the saudi led air strikes continue. the hospitals are overwhelm with the growing number of casualties putting thousands of malnourished children at further risk of death. >> the u.s. now where the first of six democratic presidential candidate debates will get underway in las vegas later. former secretary of state is facing tougher than expected competition from senator bernie sanders. you just wouldn't look at bernie sanders and think political rock star. he doesn't come across as overly groomed he is far from young and hip. but he is drawing the biggest most enthusiastic crowds on the democratic side of the race. >> they are sick and tired of establishment politics. >> his po

the sport. we opened up in 2001. it is now 2013. we served over 10,000 children since our opening. a parent who came to us, like a third child in the family and she said we saved the lives of her children. marie johns invited us to join the chamber because she thought it would be good. we're a nonprofit. we came in, we met other nonprofits. other corporations, other businesses. we were able to connect and to network with many different entities in the city and it's been helpful. i think about barbara lane, she's done such a great job with this organization that whatever the business community needs or needs to know, the chamber is going to provide it. and if you need information, if you need support, if you need help or guidance, they have a great organization that provides that. this morning i was reading to the kids and they asked me what -- what made you build the southeast tennis and learning center and i said you. i have to pat myself on the back. we worked very hard. we have children who really are showing what we can do, through their actions. so it's very affirming and excit

here at wayne elementary school learn the same lessons so many of our children learn, stranger danger, if you see something, say something, and right around this time last night radnor police say they put those lessons into action with their mother and police officers, resulting in the the arrest of the man, who allegedly was attempting to lure the children, talking about going in to the woods. police say daniel lee a approached three children age ten, nine, and eight on the playground outside wayne elementary school around 6:00 wednesday evening. and scarring them, when he began talking about heading in to the wood nearby. >> and then he started talking about going in the woods and i will go into a cabin in the woods, and they felt scared about this and they felt a stranger. >> reporter: investigators claim lee left, and returned 20 minutes later where he was spotted by the children's mother. police say she net filed police officers who arrived within two minutes, the children, never threaten, touched, or injured by the suspect according to police. >> good thing

the virginia freedmen's bureau provided relief for thousands of free men, women, and children, yet the number of people receiving relief consistently decreased. november of 1865 within than 6000 children, 3500 women, and 1500 men received help, but by june of the next year only 1000 men received help. 2000 women and 2500 children. a lot of information about the distribution of rations for friedman and white unionist refugees in virginia. but we don't know as much about .lothing the only area of the state i could find any information came whichouthwest virginia, is sort of strange, as many of you may know. not a lot of white people are living out there in the 1860's. nevertheless the bureau did not provide welfare to the idol. word came in july of 1865 and general howard directed that hereafter no destitute rations be issued to any able-bodied man thomas has a family of his own and in such cases you must provide undoubted evidence of their destitution. he cannot procure any sort of employment underlined by which to partially support, also underlined, them. in slab town, the friedman com

say he dide on to nothing for the children. and that the children are all the support i have. i had worked hard to raise these children. i do not know what would become of me if they were taken away from me. her father has no claim to them whatsoever. staten her case in wrote on the half of daniel collins regarding his wife, hannah. in august of 1868 she is still not home. received a reply that hannah had become the wife of a different man in manchester. collins wanted to know what he could be due to be free of his polygamist wife. jackson asked his superior if they could strike the marriage from the register, stating what had happened or if comments needed to go to court to apply for divorce. means are limited for divorce. the superior responded to his subordinate that collins was still legally -- would still legally be married unless he filed for divorce in court. great image of people getting married. obviously for other folks as they were looking to be done with their lives from the past. education was one area where general howard and black southerners were aligned as a me

my first job out of law school was with the children's defense fund. we would go into areas in the ,chools and kids couldn't see we stopped having school nurses, we stopped testing their eyesight. i found out that i couldn't see in fourth-grade. because i didn't know i couldn't see very my mother would have taken me to find out, but i thought the world was a big impressionist painting. i just got up really close to the tv set. then we had and i examine school and i found out i really can't see. there are so many kids that are not getting those basic health needs met. that also holds them back. and then of course, once we are in school, i think we should start respecting teachers again who are actually in the classroom with the kids, and try to help them help the children. i literally could go on all day. i will just say one more thing. we now have a hunger problem again. a lot of us thought that was behind us. we have both a hunger and a nutrition problem. we have maybe not the kind of hunger that turns people into what is obviously physical malnutritio

this was an incredible source for the children in the camp because it became their swimming pool. in summer, it's 125 degrees in crystal city so they were all in their scorpions and rattlesnakes and these people came from the east coast and west coast, it was hell. so the swimming pool became their place of total comfort. it also became a place of a lot of traveler g, i don't want to give up too much of you have not read the book. there were several very sad drownings in the pool, so there you have it. this is a photo i love, it's a photo of japanese and japanese-american immigrants. you can't tell which one was which. giving a christmas tree, i love this because it's that face of humanity of people struggling to overcome their boredom, their 1942, the second, the second in 1943 sumi and her parents were scheduled to be exchange them. two more in 1944, one in february, one in december. the final exchange in january 8 when ingrid and her family were traded into war. this is sumi, once she was traded into japan. her father by this time has grown a beard and looks more japanese to us

fact, that the harrises had they wanted to adopt more children. >> we saw the need of other children and we think that is the philosophy that should be out there. we added three more bedrooms onto our house. we added two more bathrooms onto to our home. >> reporter: that's prpretty concte before having anything in place, right? >> yes, nothing was in place. >> reporter: when that odd phone call came, it almost felt like divine intervention. over the following months the harrises discussed and prayed and decided to go for it. they arrange a meeting with the mother in the parking lot of this fayetteville church and they tell r they want her daughters. don't yothink mae you wereren't consering all the that this might be a little that this might be a little bit more than you should take on? >> elizabeth, i think we did consider those possibilities, but i want to be clear. why we're wanting to do this was, because we had love for children. >> reporter: it sounds rash to decideo adopt three girls you haven'n't met, aut whom you know very little. >> for us, it was not any different than doin

the courage to do it. i feel a responsibility to help other children. m a kind of pilgrim who goes around and says, look, this has to be stopped. when you leave here you can forget the slums of italy. you can think you're in new york or milan or in paris. most of the people have televisions, and if i haven't drove on purpose, i think i would be in club immediate in tel aviv. >> does that throw any parallel to you with the building of this wall and they let the jewish population in there? >> let's look for who is more guilty, who did worse things, and i really don't care. i think -- i even don't think that the people who were killed in the holocaust were all good people. they were just victims, not good and not bad. victims. and the palestinians at this moment are victims. they're not better than me. they're just victims. and i don't want them to be victims. but why compare it? >> i don't compare it. my problem with it is i think if you've gone as a generation through such suffering why you don't sympathize with the new victims. >> i do. >> not you person

we need to bring all the groups together because the children are not well. we are obligated to do better, we thank you for your dollars, we need your dollars, we really, really do need your dollars, but just because you have the dollars don't think you have all the answers, bring us into the conversation, when somebody comes to you with a proposal if it sounds too good to be truth, it probably is. mark zuckerberg did not know, 26 year's old, more money than god and oprah winfrey talking to him in one ear, he didn't know what to do. take the money, take the money. okay. come on now. somebody ought to tell the truth some time. i do not think for an instant that he had any ill-intent. he did not know, he dranked the kool-aid. we know what happened to those people who dranked the kool-aid, don't we. that experience having been had, now what do we do? what do we do? you know, we have -- we have found because money is unfortunately issues, charter versus the public. all children deserve the best, but we find ourselves in a situation where newark public school child

the children's village is unique in that siblings can live here together. something that usually doesn't happen. the young girl we've spoken with has writen letters to president obama, her sonoma county state senator, ellen degeneres, and even taylor swift. >>--dear taylor swift i live in a group home it's getting closed down and the group home is a place where foster children go but all the kids and staff here don't think of it as a group home they more think about it as a group home. could you help us? >> reporter:those who run and donate to the home tell kron 4 they'd like "pilot program" status which could possibly continue state funding for a program that is and has been supported by 49ers great joe montana. one thing is for sure. the girl we spoke to is doing what she can to make the best of her tough situation. >>--i just take it one journey at a time i mean rainbows come and go but life always stays. >> reporter: now, keep in mind 25% of the funding comes from private donors. donors, like joe montana who still supports this program to unto this day.

for the rich, there is no restriction on the number of the children they can have: the birth of four or even five children is also permitted. ...what they do is not to control the number of population but to squeeze money from people into their own pockets." back in guangdong, zhou toasts his brother's birthday with friends. but thoughts of what has happened to his missing daughter continue to haunt him. zhou says he will keep looking for her, even if that trail leads him to find her happily adopted by another family, in another country. >> "i would be overjoyed if i could see her. but i would let her to decide whether to stay there or not, because, after all, she has a complete adoptive family there. as her father, i will be much satisfied very happy to see her live in peace. if she wants to stay with me, i would feed her even if i were to beg for food. if not, i would feel satisfied just see her. in fact, my biggest dream is to see her. only then, can my heart rest, or else otherwise, i will never feel at ease for the rest of my life." >> chinese families, like those in other asian

better than home. >> reporter: there's no charge for families to stay at the inn, a unique place that opens its arms to childrenwhat is often a frightening frustrating time for them. >> i'm a pediatric endocl endoclinologist of the south health institute. i'm a huge fan of the children's inn. a lot of my patients stay here. it's a miracle and warm place. >> reporter: runners also raised money, more than 55,0$55,000. much of it in amounts of 20, 30, $40. in bethesda, jackie bensen, news4. >> again, 40,000 runners expected sunday morning. a lot of road closures. here's the marathon route. runners begin in arlington, head across the key bridge in d.c. and a loop to crystal city and finish up hopefully at the iwo jima memorial. >>> you can join for the walk to end hiv in downtown d.c. this is video from last year's event. it benefits any infected with or by hiv and aids. it begins at freedom plaza and 9:15 tomorrow morning and "news4 today" anchor you eng and chuck bell. it will be a chilly start. >> i've been out there and seen some events when temperatures are low and in the 40s, you want to start the race. hopef

i reached out to the family children services and sieveia deporto the director of family children serviceicize out of town but we have been in e-mail communication and she'll look into that as soon as she gets back. as well we also looked at the family children service card we want to give to all the officers. there were 4 questions that the advocates have concerns about. language that needed to be addressed. we reached out to family children services and that will be coming shortly. i had a conversation with director deporto and assured we'll get this taken care of as soon as she gets back. >> are you referring to in the last piece the referral card officers will give to for example, a mother when the police officer made a determination to call family and child services because there were the various factors felony and arrest and other things present, a weapon and gun in the home, all the factors in the dgo, that is the card given to the woman or parent and let them know what to expect? >> that is correct. it helps guide them through the process so they can work through a difficult situation

the number of children detained and departed is sky rocketing. up 60% at the beginning of this year compared to the same period in 2014. >> what is new is an effort that migrant shelters are going after them. pursuing them in a way they have not before, making it difficult for migrants to travel north and many times we see a greater risk. >> maureen works for the washington office of latin america. and she has concerned about what happens when migrants are detained. >> a lot of people leaving central america probably qualify for protection. we are not talking about the migrant that travels home. we are talking about families fleeing communities or force the recruitment by gangs, extortion or girls fearing being sent to prostitution. we are concerned it's done in a man or or in a way stopping protections. >> meier says additional checkpoints and security pushed migrants on to difficult or dangerous routes in efforts to evade authorities. >> migrants have been victims of horrific crimes including extortion, robbery, sexual assault. i think a lot of

i hope before i die the government will help me make a better house for the children. >> just two blocks away, he walks the streets selling cocoa nuts. most day he makes $5. cocoa nut. >> stories leek these are nut. >> stories leek these are common. >> two candidates face off in the second round of guatemalas presidential elections on sunday but many voters here question whether either caned date can bring the change so desperately needed in communities like this. >> teachers at the local public school say they don't receive any support and had to turn away children due to lack of sways. >> whenever a new administration takes power, they promise the children are the future but they fail to carry through especially in rural areas. >> some community leaders believe voting can make a difference and are meeting with residents to talk politics and politicians. >> our vote counts and i think in rural areas it's very important to vote so we can get someone into office. we have the greatest need yet many have abandoned us. david mercer, al jazeera. >>> search for the remains of people missing ov

many of the children who were old enough to work never went back when the schools were open other children, i remember writing about one particular child who is six when schools should close. by the time he started school he was ten years old, cannot read or write, is tutors were incredibly frustrated with him. he got 77 years of education before they graduated him. so, this has has affected future generations and enormous ways. it has not only affected the people that were denied an education but their descendents too. i think it impacted the way they feel about public education, how engaged they were in their children and grandchildren's education. i also think, the county still doesn't fund the schools. they tend to view the schools as the black schools which is how they refer to them when it took a second supreme court ruling in 1964 to reopen the schools. so historically they have been underfunded. members members of the black community being denied an education has not necessarily embrace that school district, and shut them out. >> jim, can you tell us about the freedom of choice ini

the season. at its height in 1952, polio would infect nearly 60,000 children in the united states. han 20,000 were left paralyzed. more than 3,000 children died from the disease. while many infected show no symptoms at all, there's one case of paralysis out of every 200. it was the fear of paralysis that drove the country into unprecedented action. >> poster boy larry mckenzie featured as a fashion show sparks the drive at the waldorf. >> 80 million people donated to jonas socks research to develop a vaccine. and when that medical breakthrough came in 1955 -- >> a major medical hurdle was crossed with the discovery of the anti-polio vaccine, which was to spread a mantle of protection over millions of american children. >> thousands volunteered in the largest peacetime effort of its kind to make sure the vaccine was distributed. and children's lives were saved. >> i don't think that we can do too much to celebrate the man who conquered polio or all the women and men who are continuing to work to eradicate polio. for me being a doctor, being able to prevent a disease is precious and s

. >> i did not want the children ever placed there. >> reporter: ever? >> ever. because, as a family they had no experience dealing with children with these issues? >> correct. >> reporter: wallis wants them in a family with no other small children. >> it'd just be better. for one thing, they could get full attention. they could get the therapies that they needed. >> reporter: but the harrises insist the opposition from dhs was about something else -- their faith. >> dhs was opposed from the first meeting that we had, because they felt like we were a fanatical couple. that was their number one issue. >> reporter: so, they weren't concerned about the girls? they were concerned about your faith? >> yes. and they said it's going to take more than god to deal with this issue. >> reporter: the harrises hear all about it during a meeting with everyone involved with caring for the girls. >> and they had their therapist there. the case workers were there. everybody tried to talk to them so they realized how serious an undertaking they were asking. it just fell on

police went to the home to check on the children. e home was in deplorable condition and discovered that rippy was injecting her 14-year-old daughter with heroin. she was injecting a 16-year-old boy. court documents indicate the heroin was supplied by her boyfriend. she was watching her inject the drug into the arms of the children. burn is on the run. police hope he turns themselves in. the abuse of the children would never come to light if the family friend hadn't tipped them off. rippy will go straight to

all the other children were unharmed. they were picked up by parent. what are investigating caused the crash. his just in, d.c. police release surveillance as they investigate a homicide at a nightclub. four persons of interest. 19-year-old eric jones was tabbed to death thursday morning at layla lounge. police are asking anyone with forward.on to come he died trying to protect his mother. dozens came out in the memory of teen tragically stabbed to death in oxon hill. .eyshaun mason was 14 fplt ros was at the gathering. reporter: hearts broken, they hit a candle and gathered to keyshaun mason. many knew him. others didn't but they knew his story. trying to protect his mother. >> i feel like he was a hero. he did try to protect his mom did a good thing he should have never died. . it was early monday morning. there was an argument between the teen's mother and live-in boy friend armed with a knife. mason and his older brother the d their way into bedroom. he was stabbed in the chest and hospital. e >> it is hard. reporter: he was a popular student freshm

he is going to turn the hearts of the children, you, back to your father. and your father's heart back to you, lest the earth be smitten with a curse. this is a sad day. it is a great day, but a dreadful day. it is great for the righteous. it is dreadful for the wicked. thomas jefferson knew it was coming, try to beat it. abraham lincoln knew it was coming tried to beat it. i went by dr. king's monument. i have learned to love my brother because if you would go and study the speeches that dr. king made in the last two years of his life, you will know that dr. king was not a dreamer. dr. king had awakened from that dream and said "my dream has turned to a nightmare." these are the words of dr. king. the night before he was assassinated, i want you to see what dr. king was saying a few days before. oh, my brother, dr. king. he started talking about -- i want to quote him right. this is too important. what dr. king said, i want to get the link which right. -- language right. when you read how dr. king evolved, we will evolve with him. he was not a dreamer. he w

what our goal is -- to identify many of the children very early at an early age, because research shows that the younger they are, the earlier you get them the levels of interventional services, the better the outcome. and nadine's place is a perfect example, where they can have quality of life, you know, should the proper resources be available. >> all right, nadinesplace.org. >> i'm sorry. nassan's place. [ laughter ] nadine. >> see? you started it. >> i know, i know. >> nassansplace.org. find out more information about the wonderful work that you're doing, autism, and how they can help you keep doing it. thank you both very much. >> my pleasure. thank you. >> next on "here and now," cool culture exposing preschoolers and their families >> the preschool program cool culture uses art to enhance language development in children during their most critical years. cool culture connects more than 50,000 low-income families in new york city with free unlimited admission to premier cultural institutions. joining us this afternoon is the executive director of cool culture, candice anderson. th

the officers brought their children. it is vore important in this day and age where there is negativity about the police officers it would good for the small children to see people being happy with the police department. thank you fwr the officers that participated thank you very much. i was very proud to be a part of that organization >> i just have to report excited news about the community safety initiative. [inaudible] that a sit a counsel had there. they are having similar violent issues with violence in the community and they were looking to interesting solutions that involved young people. apparently our kids knocked it out of the park and what the take aways have been is it is about communication and these kids talked about how much more they saw and understood what the police do and why they do it and we continue to be on to something in the way the chief has been for years of bringing young people in and doctor joe is the person that knows the most about this. when you had them in the radio show you said they sh

these women are currently raising children. in the corner of the office is a space for children. the company loves working women to take a day off and should notice to work fewer hours if their child gets sick or if there is an event at their child's school. one of their tasks is selling products and services over the phone. there is a chronic shortage of workers for this job. companies usually pay about $10 per hour for this work, but even offering $7 this firm got ten times as many applicants as it needed. >> translator: other companies probably haven't been targeting women with small children for their work force. but a variety of people can work under our system. >> reporter: women with young children are often experienced and industry ready creating work places where they can play an active role to help small and medium sized firms secure the human resources they need. >> that's it for business news for this hour. i'll leave you with another check of the markets. >>> time for a check of the weather. people in south carolina are trying to recover after a hurricane delivered to

reporter: this video shows people trying to heroically lift the toyota off the mother and one of the children pinned underneath. >> i saw the ambulance and the kids under the car. >> reporter: witnesses out here also haunted by the disturbing scene. >> we knew something was terribly wrong, and then when we saw the bodies everywhere -- >> reporter: police are trying the driver's fault or if the car malfunctioned. >> it sounded like the gas pedal was stuck. we ran towards the car, got to the car, and the car was still accelerated. >> reporter: and now the driver of that livery cab has not been charged with anything, and police are still investigating to see if the car he was driving was malfunctioning. reporting live from the bronx, tracee carrasco, cbs 2 news. >> tracee, thank you. >>> someone has been throwing rocks at cars from a railroad overpass in long island, and in one i case, it nearly killed the driver. christopher longito was driving when someone threw rocks from the overpass, and the rocks hit the front windshield and shattered his rear windshield. he says shattered glass went every

the war. they say if it continues, many children will die. >> the situation is terrible. after six months of conflict, we have half a million children who are severely and acutely malnourished. the same time last year, we had less than 160,000 children. so it's got three times worse. >> reporter: this hospital in sanaa was targeted many times. doctors here fear they may have to relegate to a temporary clinic if the saudi-led air strikes continue. other hospitals are overwhelmed with the growing number of casualties. putting thousands of malnourished children at further risk of death. al jazeera. >>> dutch investigators are due publish their final report in to malaysian airlines flight mh17 which was shot down over eastern ukraine last year. all 289 people on board the bo boeing 777 died in the crash. it will answer some questions about why the plane was taking that route but won't apportion blame. >> reporter: it was meant t to have been a routine flight between amsterdam and koala lumpur. one of many planes traveling high above of fighting in eastern ukraine. >> but for t

aid agencies say if the war continues many children will die. >> the situation is terrible. ter six months of conflict, we have half a million children who are severely and acutely malnourished, and at the same time, last year, we had less than 160,000 children. so it's got three times worse. >> reporter: this hospital in sana'a was targeted many times. doctors here fear they may have to relocate to a temporary clinic in the saudi-lead air strikes continue. the hospitals are overwhelmed with the growing number of casualties. putting thousands of malnourished children at further risk of death. >>> the heavily fortified border separating north and south korea is the world's most militarized boundary. al jazeera has respected a request from south korea's military to blur markings on the border fence. harry fawcett is there. >> reporter: we're just a few kilometers short of the dnz. this is a routine practice. they are simulating coming under attack by north korean fire and repelling that fire. this is something they do every day. but at the moment, just over two monks since a do

but they thought the children of immigrants were the children of the pork certainly ought to be at work there would help the families with their wages. and they would learn discipline to build character so there was the split between the lives of the children of the well off and the children who happen to come from poverty. wanted is from a group of reformers with the illiterate adults with no skills, and no ability to think clearly no mathematical abilities and in his novels a year and short stories cover remember he wrote 50 books, hundreds of short stories many were best sellers and the magazines that carry his stories were hurt -- were mass-market magazines out to the millions in of the course somewhere in barbershops were there were borrowed everyone loved jack london. but embedded in his stories we have the opportunity to see a reformist a message that taps into our own time. we see it in print we are in the second to gilded age. what does this mean? rate to the quality is so vast it has captured public attention the occupy movement of a few years ago seems to have melted away but

that's a long time to be sitting in ice water. >> the children are losing their strength, the water loweringdy temperatures so much they can barely move. hypothermia is setting in. >> anything less than 100% rescue for five children is a tragedy. it's a complete tragedy. if you don't do your job to the best that you were trained with no hesitation, a child will die. >> as fisher, la mancha, and mcnamara approach for the rescue, they lay on their stomachs to distribute their weight. >> at that point, the children were excited and they had grabbed on to us, and slowly the ice broke, and we slid into the water with them. >> the kids go into a frenzy. one of them is so scared, she dumps a policeman into the chilling waters. tethered to the rescue ropes onshore, the officers are able to recover and boost three of the children onto the raft. >> we were kind of running out of room inside the raft. >> the two kids still in the water, joanna morales and her brother, rafael, let go of the ice and start drifting away. >> you could see it in their faces. i started to lose one of them. >> la mancha quick

. >>> well, we'll shoot the children. at's what armed robbers told an east bay mother who they ambushed at gunpoint and robbed inside her own home. now hercules police are on the hunt. on the board of hercules. more with now who police are looking for and what a terrifying thing for a family to go through, damian. >> sure it was. police here in hercules are looking for a black man in his 20s and asian american man also in his 20s. this family was terrorized and police now are looking for those two armed suspects around this vicinity. now, it happened in the 200 block of cinnibar way on wednesday night. police say a 47-year-old mother parked her car in the driveway with her two children and her elderly mother. that's when the suspects arrived and pulled guns on the family. they had a semi automatic handgun and was described as a black hillitary-style rifle. police say the suspects said they would, again, shoot the children ages 9 and 10 unless their mother told them where the safe was located. the mother complied and the su

>> police say suspect never specifically asked the children to go anywhere with him, and the detectives say he admitted it was inapropriate to talk to the kids. lee being charged with attempted luring, a felony. >> we went to the home, nobody answered the door. lee parks wart time at movie theater, the school sent letter to parent and spoke to each grade level, about what happened, and how to deal with strangers. >> this is a situation where the system absolutely worked, that by the parent of the children. >> still mom suzanne said she wonders what lee's intent was. suspect never directly threatened the children, or fos dollars them to go anywhere. i wonder what the other side of the story was. this isn't something that we come across in the neighborhood often. but, there is always two sides to store. >> i lee being held on $100,000 bail. he is expected to undergo a psych evaluation, in radnor township, sabina kuriakose, "fox 29 news". >>> alarming story see only on fox, symbol of hatred, carved right into a montgomery county woman's door. what that person left, we are choosing not to s

my first job out of law school was with the children's defense fund. go into areas in the schools and kids couldn't see, we stopped having school nurses, we stopped testing their eyesight. i found out that i couldn't see in fourth-grade. because i didn't know i couldn't see very my mother would have taken me to find out, but i thought the world was a big impressionist painting. i just got up really close to the tv set. then we had and i examine school -- then we had an eye exam in school and i found out i really can't see. there are so many kids that are not getting those basic health needs met. that also holds them back. and then of course, once we are in school, i think we should start respecting teachers again who are actually in the classroom with the kids, and try to help them help the children. i literally could go on all day. i will just say one more thing. we now have a hunger problem again. a lot of us thought that was behind us. we have both a hunger and a nutrition problem. we have maybe not the kind of hunger that turns people into what is